The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-11
a STORY OF THE CRIME.
Sketches of the Men who Played the
Leading Roles.

Leading Roles.
a more striking procession of civic events
may never again be witnessed than the one
having its latest outcome to-day.
The supposed absurdly theatrical demon
STATIONS with red banners and black that
took place in the streets of Chicago not two
winters ago, followed soon afterward by the
picturesque, Yet ominous, Sunday gather
erings Of tatterdemalions, foreigners and
demagogues on the broad common at the
lake front, are now recalled as the quick
forerunners of secret cellar-drillings by
hundreds of ignorant, fanatical rifiemen in
the purlieus throughout the city. Then
came the cool, deliberate dynamite exper-
iments by carefully masked rep
resentatives in the woods skirting the
suburbs. Later on, secluded in the quiet of
downtown back rooms,
DARK CoNCLAVEs
OF wild-idead but brainy, INSCRIPTIONS
leaders eagerly discussed as their long
coveted opportunity the just-beginning de
Velopment of tho workingman's concerted
movement for uniform eight-hour day.
How the gigantic, peaceful strikes were
turned into riots, how the entire world was
startled by the blood-chilling bomb massa-
ere in the Haymarket; then the majestic
State trial, the amazing bravado of the one
American defendant, the horribly grOteSque
marriage of another one of the prisoners
every detail of these strange occurrences
and the extraordinary train succeeding,
now presents itself again as if the whole
had passed but yesterday.
The keynote of it all is found in the
platform of
THE MYSTERIOUS I. A. A.
International Arbei5er, (Workingmens) AS
sociation-of which organization August
Spies and his seven co-defendant3 were
leading members and upholders. In the
International platform it is urged tha5 ''the
present system under which property is
owned by individuals should be destroyed,
and that all capital which has been pro-
duced by labor should be trans
formed into common property by
force" Eighty Groups of this dangerous
association existed in the United States,
chiefly at the great industrial centres Chi
cago alone being the ill-starred possessor of
seven. Only a portion of the members
were armed, yet the number of this class in
attended regular military drill, had his own
rifle and revolver, and could obtain
DYNAMITE AND BOMBS
for the asking The unarmed members of
the groups were constantly in contact with
Uubli al Liitu AZ anu III hCSi o1
pathy with their purposes and their princi-
pies. 1t was this compact, well-disciplined
|. A 4. that had for IL organs three now
noted newspapers--the ATbeiteT Zeituhg,
the Alalm and the anarchist Excepting
handsome, youthful Louis Lingg, who,
though taking a conspicuous part, was a
mere acting agent, each of
THE EIGHT HAYMARKET DEFENDANTS
was directly connected with one of these
papers.
August Spies, keen, cynical Hessian,
with the subtle intellectual vigor of an Iago,
was editor-in-chief of the .4rbeiter. The
jaunty, daredevil little Texan, Albert r.
Parsons, brother of Confederate General,
presided over the Alarm. AT the head
Of the anarchist George Engel, another
Hessian, but Of coarse, brutal type, out
Her0ded the most blood-thlrsty utterances of
his compeers. While Sam Fielden, the
Englishman, sullen looking, shaggy and
forbidding but as an agitator
simply volcanic, and Oscar Neebe, the
polished, attractive German-American or
ganizer. were more especially concerned in
other than journalistic branches of the
propaganda, they were, nevertheless, among
the directors respectively of the Alarm and
the Arbeiter ZejtRRg. The gaunt Bavarian
Michael Schwab was Spies assistant editor,
and his fellow-countryman, Adolph Fischer,
he of thepoisoned dagger, was the AT6eitef's
head foreman.
Not one of these men--however they
might split hairs, could candidly deny that
he was instrumental to a greater or less
degree in helping on the catastrophe at the
Haymarket. OF the legal guilt OF each
nothing need be said further than its GER
tainty was put to tests seldom if ever par
alleled.
During the long months preceding the
mountaineering the defendants one and all
were necessarily active in
AGITATING AND ORGANIZING
in demonstrations and experiments 4"
Their speeches and articles fairly bristled
with impassioned appeals for the laboring
people to provide themselves with firearms
and dynamite Specific instructions were
given how to handle and use the explosive,
and how to make bombs and how to procure
weapons All this was stated by the
conspirators TO he making ready for
the coming social revolution" What
was meant by social revolution" was not
left TO he vaguely inferred, nor was the time
when it was to be inaugurated dim uncer
tainty of the future. The revolution was
frequently defined in speech and writing
as sudden, bloody, forcibe upheaval of
the right of private ownership of property,
then the bringing about Of state Of so
ciety i'll which all property should De held
in common.
Incredible as it may seem, the avowed
purpose was
TO DELuGE THE CITY IN BLOOD
of the property owning classes, first destroy.
ing the police and militia, who were derlded
as their special champions. The period Of
confusion developing from the mammoth
strikes of May |, 1886, was definitely an
nounced months before as the time when the
fearful bolt should fall. Pitiless as was this
programme, and difficult as belief is that
it ever was contemplated by men, the facts
as stated were abundantly proven in court
The diabolism was fully shared in by
women. Especially so was this the case in
the
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS.
like the red-fag procession OF ragamuftins
with torches that attempted at night 20 en-
ter the magnificent new Board of Trade
when the dedication festivities of the bnsti-